Another lingering reflection, from a recent Randoms...:
What are we observing when we experience drivenness—in ourselves or in others?
What is going on with drivenness?
Is it a need, a desire, a demand, an expression, a habit?
How about drivenness for truth, especially when drivenness for it isn't punctuated with things like grace (what, after all, is the source of all the energy tied up in our quest for truth—our need to be right)?
But, drivenness isn't confined to things like absolute truth.
It includes things like my truth, your truck, our truth. In other words, the truth that particularly drives us, as individuals. People often seem highly motivated to find or pursue something, whether they fully know why or not. They are observably driven by it.
So, how then, would we describe what drivenness is?
It obviously seems to include some kind of innate energy that directly or indirectly compels us—something that seems to come from our very being or our experiences, that makes us who we are, that motivates us in a way that is, at times, beyond even conscious choice.
It often looks like a need—to have, to know, to be.
